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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Japan	Burkina Faso	France
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	126,512	11,075	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	126,755	11,405	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	127,056	11,828	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	127,324	12,380	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	127,558	12,829	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	127,658	13,178	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	127,679	13,540	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	127,762	13,917	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	127,904	14,309	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	127,969	14,722	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	127,958	15,152	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	127,967	15,600	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	127,755	16,064	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	127,476	16,563	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	127,257	17,072	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	127,186	17,575	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	127,034	18,094	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	126,857	18,621	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	126,631	19,157	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	126,368	19,698	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	126,092	20,242	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	125,634	20,788	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	125,427	21,336	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	124,762	21,889	68,387

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

France

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.